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SFU’s Health and Counselling Services is offering a series of Flu Vaccination Clinics starting late October 2010. Free and paid vaccines will be available to SFU students, staff and faculty. To determine whether you qualify for a free vaccine please visit ImmunizeBC. If you do qualify for a free vaccine be sure to bring your Care Card with you to the clinic. If you are pregnant and want to get the free vaccine please bring your doctor’s note to the clinic. If you do not qualify for the free vaccine, each flu shot will cost $20.00.
For a full schedule of HCS Flu Clinics please visit Vaccinations at SFU

Presently, Health and Counselling Services (HCS) does not have any additional Flu Clinics scheduled at SFU. If you are still interested in receiving the H1N1 and/or Seasonal flu vaccine please see your family doctor or visit a public clinic. For information regarding public vaccination clinics, please visit the BC government flu clinic locator at http://www.health.gov.bc.ca/flu, or visit your local health authority website:

Health and Counselling Services may schedule additional flu clinics at SFU in 2010 if the need arises. Any additional flu clinic information will be posted here, so check back often. For resources and information on preventing cold and flu please visit the HCS website at www.students.sfu.ca/health.

In addition to the Flu Clinic scheduled for Friday December 11th, from 9:30am to 3:00pm in the James Douglas Room a clinic will also be held on Tuesday December 15th, 9:30am to 3:00pm in the James Douglas Room. Please note this is the LAST clinic HCS has scheduled at SFU.

All BC residents are eligible for H1N1 vaccine free of charge with an MSP card (i.e. CareCard). Seasonal flu vaccine is available free of charge to those who meet public health criteria or $20 to those who do not meet the criteria and choose to receive it. See http://www.immunizebc.ca/ImmVacPrevDis/influenza.htm for more detail. Pregnant women should discuss the vaccine and risks with their family doctor and will require a doctor’s note for the SFU clinics. Please remember to bring your Care Card with you to any SFU clinic.

For public vaccination clinics, please visit the BC government flu clinic locator at http://www.health.gov.bc.ca/flu, contact your family doctor, or visit your local health authority website:

Note: Vaccine and times are limited on any given day. It will be distributed until the end of the clinic or until vaccine runs out, whichever comes first. Lines have been forming early. If you have questions, ask the assistant handing out the forms at the clinic.

Pregnant women should discuss the vaccine and risks with their family doctor and will require a doctor’s note for the SFU clinics.

Public health will be holding mass flu clinics right across the street from SFU Surrey. Public Health mentioned that the crowds are large at the beginning of each clinic and suggested that people may want to show up a couple hours later. Please verify these times with Fraser Health Authority (http://www.fraserhealth.ca) before attending.

Public health has relaxed the criteria for the H1N1 vaccine and it is now available to all BC residents. Health and Counselling Services will be offering flu vaccine clinics over the next while at specific times and locations.

H1N1 vaccine is available to all residents of BC free of charge with an MSP card (i.e. CareCard). Seasonal flu vaccine is available as per previous years – free of charge to those who meet public health criteria or $20 to those who do not meet the criteria and choose to receive it. See http://www.immunizebc.ca/ImmVacPrevDis/influenza.htm for more detail.

Pregnant women should discuss the vaccine and risks with their family doctor and will require a doctor’s note for the SFU clinics.

For clinics held elsewhere in the community please visit the BC government flu clinic locator at http://www.health.gov.bc.ca/flu, contact your family doctor, or visit your local health authority website:

Public health has announced a change in the criteria for receiving the flu vaccine. This information and our ability to provide the vaccine is changing rapidly. Please see http://www.sfu.ca/vaccinations/?feed=rss2 for the latest information on availability. Flu Clinics will be offered at specific times at SFU for people who meet the public health expanded criteria while supplies last.

If you are experience flu like symptoms or have concerns about the flu, please contact HealthLink BC at 8-1-1 or visit their website http://www.healthlinkbc.ca.

SFU Health and Counselling Services has received a limited supply of H1N1 vaccine for students, faculty and staff who are:

pregnant with a doctor’s note or

all ages with chronic health conditions or

are the household contacts of infants under 6 months or the immune compromised or

between the ages of 6 months and 18 years old.

emergency first responders (firefighters, police officers)

living in remote or isolated communities

a member of an Aboriginal community

Clinics for these specific groups will be held on the following dates. Please NOTE the different locations and times:

For clinics held elsewhere in the community please visit the BC government flu clinic locator at http://www.health.gov.bc.ca/flu, contact your family doctor, or visit your local health authority website:

SFU students, faculty and staff who fall into Phase 2 HIGH RISK group can get vaccinated for both H1N1 flu and seasonal flu at the Burnaby campus, Nov. 12, and 13 from 1:30pm-4pm at Health and Counselling Services, in the Maggie Benston Centre, Room MBC 0101.

It is only available through drop-in during those times while supplies last – we are not taking flu vaccine appointments – but please note daily vaccines are limited. Please bring your CareCard.

The HIGH RISK group is determined by Public Health and includes:

pregnant women

people under age of 65 with chronic health conditions

members of the Aboriginal community

children 6 months to 5 years old

people who work in health care

people who are in contact at home or through home care services with infants and people who have compromised immune systems

Information on the broadening of the RISK GROUP criteria is not available as of Nov 10. BC public health officials have not yet given an exact date of when the vaccine will be available to the general population. They have recently stated that it will probably be available in December. We will post more information as it becomes available and if we are able to add more flu vaccine dates.

If you have any questions about external clinics please visit the BC government flu clinic locator at http://www.health.gov.bc.ca/flu/, contact your family doctor, or visit your local health authority website:

SFU students, faculty and staff who fall into Phase 2 HIGH RISK group can get vaccinated for both H1N1 flu and seasonal flu at the Burnaby campus, Nov. 9, and 10 from 1:30pm-4pm at Health and Counselling Services, in the Maggie Benston Centre, Room MBC 0101.

It is only available through drop-in during those times while supplies last – we are not taking flu vaccine appointments – but please note daily vaccines are limited. Please bring your CareCard.

The HIGH RISK group is determined by Public Health and includes:

pregnant women

people under age of 65 with chronic health conditions

members of the Aboriginal community

children 6 months to 5 years old

people who work in health care

people who are in contact at home or through home care services with infants and people who have compromised immune systems

Information on the broadening of the RISK GROUP criteria is not available as of Nov 6. BC public health officials have not yet given an exact date of when the vaccine will be available to the general population. They have recently stated that it will probably be available in December. We will post more information as it becomes available and if we are able to add more flu vaccine dates.

The remaining dates/times are in the bottom floor of the Maggie Benston Centre and are mentioned below. This is open to the SFU community as per the RISK GROUP outlined in a previous post. While supplies last – a subsequent post will mention if supplies run out. When we have more info about availability or changes in criteria (as per public health) we will post it as well. Please bring your CareCard.

HCS is only able to provide a limited number of flu shots per day AND has been provided a limited amount of vaccine.

We will offer the vaccine until supplies last and will post here when they are gone. Please note people have been lining up. At 1:30 we will be handing out numbered tickets to the predicted number of people we are able to serve that day (which depends on nurse availability). It is on a first come first serve basis daily and we are not able to predict when people need to begin to line-up. Unfortunately we have not been able to serve everyone who visits.

Clinic dates/times and information on who is considered in a risk group are listed in previous posts.

If you have any questions about external clinics please visit the BC government flu clinic locator at http://www.health.gov.bc.ca/flu/, contact your family doctor, or visit your local health authority website: